In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 25 Aug 2020 06:43:00 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver (John)" wrote:

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 23:24:08, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:22:05 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver (John)" wrote:
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There should be noticeably more when the CPU is working hard. (And you
should hear the fan spin up; if you don't, something's amiss.) I'm a bit

I don't think I've ever heard any laptop fan spin up. I've had 3
laptops. Still have two of them.

Oh, this old Toshiba (now apparently Dynamode!) definitely does; I
notice it when I do video conversion, for example. And sometimes I hear
it whirr up unexpectedly, and look in Task Manager, and there's always a
peak in CPU usage, so I look to see what's causing it.

I've definitely heard the Optiplex speed up. I wondered a bit if it's
fan was even turning until I heard it speed up.

But if the fan has never worked right, that means there is even less of
a rush to fix it. If it's gone even for 2 months of use this year and
3 months last year without damaging itself, it can go another month
until I get the new desktop and start using it full t ime.

Have a play with something like speedfan; that can draw graphs of
various temperatures, and I think fan speeds.

I can't feel any air coming out of the vent but I took some toilet
paper, the flimsiest paper I have, and put it a half inch from the vent
and it seems to be blowing another half inch away.

Does sound a bit weak.

paranoid about it, so have an external fan - not one of the tray type
that blows in from below, but an extractor that fits over the exhaust
vent on the side and sucks. (About the shape and size of a packet of
fags, and comes with a selection of what I call pair of lips to make a
good seal to the vent.) Mine - a Tecbean - has a temperature display;
there are several makes, very similar-looking.

Is this added weight to carry around?

Yes, but less than a tray. Maybe similar to a mouse?

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**I heard on the radio that it's not because older people have really
forgotten words (the topic of his study) but they know more words and
it takes longer to find the one they want. I hope so, if you count

I like that explanation! I do know a lot of words!

maps and views, I've learned more in the last 3 years than any 3 y ears
since I turned 12, and I remember most of it. I look at a map of new
places I've been and I can picture the road, the buildings, the parking
lot, of hundreds of places. Sherlock Holmes "said" that after a
certain point your brain gets full and when you learn new things you
have to push out old things. So at least I'm not senile, afaic.

He seemed to imply that he could choose what to discard, though!

If you're going by what I said, I misphrased it. I never read it
myself anyhow, and it came out different the last time I said what he
said. But I thought you didn't get to choose what to discard.